LyX ⇒ Inserted Table has no Cells

[grevillea]

I am using LyX on Windows, the default bundle setup with MikTeX. I successfully created simple LyX documents.

But when I select insert table option (either menu or toolbar icon) it does not prompt for the size of the table. It gives me an empty table with an empty caption. The LaTeX code appears as follows.

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% Preview source code for paragraph 0

\begin{table}


\caption{}


\end{table}

It is a few years since I used LaTeX but I recall & between table items in a row. However, there is no tabular environment here.

[grevillea]

This turns out to be one of the less clear aspects of LyX documentation. One has to insert a float table and then insert a table within that.